Aerodynamics I detailed syllabus for Aeronautical Engineering (AERO) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna University official website and presented for the AERO students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Aeronautical Engineering 4th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit AERO 4th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. The detailed syllabus of aerodynamics i is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
INTRODUCTION TO LOW-SPEED FLOW 9 Euler equation, incompressible Bernoullis equation. circulation and vorticity, greens lemma and Stokes theorem, barotropic flow, kelvins theorem, streamline, stream function, irrotational flow, potential function, Equipotential lines, elementary flows and their combinations.
Unit II
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Unit III
AIRFOIL THEORY 9 Cauchy-Riemann relations, complex potential, methodology of conformal transformation, Kutta-Joukowski transformation and its applications, thin airfoil theory and its applications.
Unit IV
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Unit V
INTRODUCTION TO BOUNDARY LAYER THEORY 9 Boundary layer and boundary layer thickness, displacement thickness, momentum thickness, energy thickness, shape parameter, boundary layer equations for a steady, two-dimensional incompressible flow, boundary layer growth over a flat plate, critical Reynolds number, Blasius solution, basics of turbulent flow.
Course Outcomes:
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Text Books:
- Anderson, J.D., “Fundamentals of Aerodynamics”, McGraw Hill Book Co., 2010
- Houghton, E.L., and Caruthers, N.B., “Aerodynamics for Engineering students”, Edward Arnold Publishers Ltd., London, 1989.
- E Rathakrishnan, Theoretical Aerodynamics, John Wiley, NJ, 2013
Reference Books:
- Clancey, L J.,” Aerodynamics”, Pitman, 1986
- John J Bertin., “Aerodynamics for Engineers”, Pearson Education Inc, 2002
- Kuethe, A.M and Chow, C.Y, Foundations of Aerodynamics, Fifth Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2000.
- Milne Thomson, L.H., “Theoretical Aerodynamics”, Macmillan, 1985
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